Getty Images/ Evgenia Novozhenina By Melissa Noel· Updated November 9, 2022
Brittney Griner’s legal team said Wednesday that the American basketball star has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her drug possession sentence, according to The Associated Press.
Griner’s nine-year sentence was upheld by a Russian court last month. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time all-star center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury was found